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Lily Tomson

@lilymtomson.bsky.social
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Responsible investment, climate, debt decarbonisation and index construction @Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Winter swimming, jazz bass clarinet, ethnography.📍Berlin. She/her

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
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The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our news is out! @cambridgeuni.bsky.social and the UN's pension scheme will move up to $750 million to track the world’s first global corporate bond index for investors aiming to reduce their investments in fossil fuel expansion. More info: shorturl.at/PHb8v Press: shorturl.at/2U1lx
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Cambridge, UN pension scheme back novel climate-focused bond index
Cambridge University and the U.N. pension scheme will move up to $750 million of their investments to track a novel bond index that will exclude or limit exposure to companies helping to expand production of climate-damaging fossil fuels, executives told Reuters.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Important reminder. I remember learning this as 'history' in school - but it feels close right now.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Staggeringly brave and important.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Not on my 2024 bingo card: my favourite podcast was about a 1336pg, 50yo biography of a man I'd never heard of! But @romanmars.bsky.social & @elliottkalan.bsky.social taught me so much about power, politics and beautiful bureaucracy.* (one day I might even read it..!) 99percentinvisible.org/club/
Episode breakdown of the 99pi break down of the Power Broker, set out like a gig poster with lists of episodes, dates and the chapters of the book that they feature. Also the podcast logo which features a spooky looking bust of Robert Moses, the subject of the book.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 04/01/2025
A guide to political framing and rebuttal through the medium of (not) eating babies. It’s good. You’ll get the message.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
All of these are choices that we can make otherwise
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, we were *checks notes* posting about the potential leakage effects of locating Santa’s workshop in a remote place that surely also needs lots of year-round space heating
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Pre-christmas cross-continent train travel is painful. But: the crinkling into joy of an elderly lady's wrinkles as I passed around gingerbread on the packed train near Aachen. All the sweet solidarity of missed connections. Now, the owl hooting outside my Brussels hotel window. Partial redemptions.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
After many years of investor engagement, the sector seems surprised that if you only ask companies to set climate targets, they are more likely to do this than to change their current practice (e.g. emissions)..? 🤔
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This thread crisply articulates some examples of the idea of 'the future' as an organising principle - something I try to think about (or 'with') a lot. It's also a great concept for thinking about climate-related organising. Thanks @sjshancoxli.bsky.social !
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What impact will the coming Trump perspective have on institutional investors driving decarbonisation? @lindsey-stewart.bsky.social at THE IPE conference in Prague: "There is an inevitable transition away from fossil fuels... it is vital that long term investors retain this perspective."
Four figures sit on a podium: a moderator (Susanna Rust) and three panelists (Arthur Dessaix, Lindsey Stewart, Peter Lundkvist). Above them is a screen with the session title 'Decarbonisation: Are asset owners over their heads?' and their names and affiliations.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/12/2024
Folks talking about "overpopulation" aren't in the climate movement. They're in, uh, a different movement (derogatory).
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨 Job Alert: Positive Money Europe is hiring a new Executive Director in Brussels! 🌍 [I have the honour of a UK director] 📢 Join us in reshaping the financial system for a fairer and greener future. 👉 Apply by Jan 12, 2024: positivemoney.org/vacancy/eu-e... #Hiring #ExecutiveDirector #Sustainability
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EU Executive Director
Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Grace Lee Boggs: “It’s never about critical mass, but critical connections.”
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Annual highlight of UK social media: being reminded of the amazing names the Scottish snow ploughs have 🌨️🙌🚒 experience.arcgis.com/experience/9...
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'll be getting this for various (younger) friends and family! It's sad to read that "while 64% of primary schools teach French, just 3% provide German". This language and the cultures of the people that speak it have given me, Britain and also Europe, so much. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The Gruffalo’s illustrator launches book to help UK pupils learn German
Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first language
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's amazing how good some folks are at time travel
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
'Lola Rennt' was probably the first film I watched in German, in my northern England state school GCSE class. Mrs Stevenson died a few years ago. I still think of her. Thanks in part to her wit, warmth and great film choices, I live near this intersection today. May we all send such good echoes.
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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/11/2024
Pressed onto the road by passing cars, these fallen leaves become frozen ghosts of themselves: a perfect pattern of autumn in all its finery.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I think about this surprisingly often. So wonderfully humbling to remember all that we don't know.
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The #Spreebogen is one of my favourite spots in the city
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Moodsoup @moodsoup.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Lily Tomson @lilymtomson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I love Germans for their habit of lurking around the corner from a venue so they can show up bang on time. Turns out my years here are shaping me: I've been doing that with Bluesky! It's time to start posting, now this corner of the internet is starting to feel a little like community 👋
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